Inside the Security Mind: Making the Tough Decisions

The Virtue of Community Effort

In the Virtue of Community Effort, there are two communities that affect and are affected by the security practices within an environment. These are what we call the inner community, which is made up of us, our end-users, and our executives, and the public, or outer community, which consists of the IT world outside of our perimeter boundaries. Each of these communities plays a very large role in the practice of security within an organization.

The idea of security being a community effort cannot be overemphasized. It may not be obvious at first, but the majority of information security issues within systems and networks ...